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The last person Jamie Truman wants to see at his sister's wedding is the man he both loves and hates. Payne Rogan is outgoing and athletic, the kind of guy Jamie's father always wanted Jamie to be, and while undeniably attracted to Payne, Jamie still resents him for that. But when he finds out Payne is equally interested in him, it forces Jamie to examine his painful past...more

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Published June 2009 by Dreamspinner Press

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Jul 11, 2011 Daanquai rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Even though I only gave this book 3 stars, I really liked it. I've read other books by this author and I noticed how she manages to write stories, while a little angsty sometimes, the romance is very sweet. In this book, she did a wonderful job with the alternating POV from both characters, James and Payton. And she beautifully conveyed an entire story line that spans over 10 years into such a short book. My reason for giving it a low rating is that there just wasn't much conflict in the story....more

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Sep 26, 2011 Arthur rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. 4.5 stars

How do you feel when your father sees you as a failure since he was an athlete (hence expected his son to be one too), but you seem to have two left legs? Not only that, your father let his opinion of you known? Perhaps not as bad as when your athlete sister is dating a boy who is your father's dream personified. And on top of that, your father finds out that you are gay so he stops talking to you altogether.

That's what James felt when his sister Ava dated Payne Rogan, a handsome, athl...more 4.5 stars

How do you feel when your father sees you as a failure since he was an athlete (hence expected his son to be one too), but you seem to have two left legs? Not only that, your father let his opinion of you known? Perhaps not as bad as when your athlete sister is dating a boy who is your father's dream personified. And on top of that, your father finds out that you are gay so he stops talking to you altogether.

That's what James felt when his sister Ava dated Payne Rogan, a handsome, athlete par excellence, and not surprisingly, popular boy in the high school. James just hated him. Unfortunately, he also helplessly had crush on his sister's boyfriend. So, once he finished high school, James just fled his North Carolina town and got into NYU drama school where he graduated and started teaching in a high school. He simply never returned home. Not even for Christmas. The only contacts he had were with his mother and Ava via phone. Or when the two visited him. Now and then, his mother and Ava--who by then already broke up with Payne--talk about the man he hates. How he get scholarship to Duke, majoring in sports medicine, and so on. That's fine. Until one day, when the mother kept hinting on Ava that she'd be glad if the sister would date Payne again, she dropped a bomb. Payne was, and always had been, gay. This news hit James hard and made him furious. So, he sent email to Payne, the only email he ever sent to him, telling how rude, coward, and bad Payne was. It's fine. After all, James would never ever see Payne anymore. Which was true, until Ava asked him home for her wedding. And informed him that Payne would be the best man for Matt, the groom.

The rest of the book is on how James and Payne meet and deal with their differences, considering James lives in New York City and Payne in Charlotte, North Carolina. Like most of Lisa Marie Davis' books, this one is sweet. I really like it because while sweet, IMO, it's not overly sap. Partly because of the difficult situations that James has to face for being a failure in his father's eyes. The MCs are very likable. The father is a bit too 'standard' bigot father, but fortunately the other supporting characters, especially the sister, Ava, are nice.

Note that this book has a sequel Moving Forward.(less)

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Feb 15, 2011 Wendy (wluvsbooks) rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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For a short novella, there was a lot of time history covered in this book (approx. 10 years or so) which gives a lot of perspective. I enjoyed the alternating points of view which span a chapter at a time - it's always nice to get inside each characters head to understand what's going on. The two main characters met under interesting circumstances. Payne started dating James' sister and sort of became the son that James never was. James resented Payne for this. Well, things are never as simple a...more

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Jul 02, 2009 Elisa Ramblings added it · review of another edition

It's not the first time that I noticed, reading a novella by Lisa Marie Davis, that she has a very sweet romance perspective on the world... it's nice, it's innocent, it's fresh... probably it's not true, or it's too sugary, but it's made of the same material that dreams are. Cinderfellas, love at first sight, first love never forgotten... they are all elements of that type of romance that sometime is called in a derogatory way, Harlequin, the line that more represents them, but there are millio...more It's not the first time that I noticed, reading a novella by Lisa Marie Davis, that she has a very sweet romance perspective on the world... it's nice, it's innocent, it's fresh... probably it's not true, or it's too sugary, but it's made of the same material that dreams are. Cinderfellas, love at first sight, first love never forgotten... they are all elements of that type of romance that sometime is called in a derogatory way, Harlequin, the line that more represents them, but there are million of women all over the world who read that books bagful at once, so there must be something in them.

The novella is told from two point of view, James and Payton, the change in perspective starts at the beginning of every chapter. James was a fragile child, the classical library mouse, and he has always felt as if he was a disappointment for his father; James was not strong and agile enough to be up to his father expectation to have a jock son, and James learned soon enough that there was no way to change his mind. To add pain to shame, his sister Ava brought home the perfect boyfriend, Payton, handsome, clever and excellent in every sports; for all his youth James witnessed to his father's betrayal. It was not either that James was compared to Payton, there was no game, Payton was simple ignored. And James couldn't even fully hate Payton, since soon enough he discovered that he had a crush on his sister's boyfriend. After a youth of loneliness and the last refusal by his father when he came out to his family, James left for College and tried to forget his love for Payton, without a lot of success.

Meanwhile Payton had a fight for his own. Also him was gay, but he had not the courage to "officially" come out; when he did with his family he was refused like James, and so he depended to James' family to have a fake appearance of stability. He realized that he was hurting James, stealing the boy's father, but he was not strong enough to renounce to it. And slowly he fell in love for James, who silently suffered it all. Now both adult, Payton wants to conquer James' heart, and finally realize their dreams.

As I said there is quite a pink glasses perspective during all the romance; true, both James than Payton had very bad experiences of non acceptance, but all in all, they managed to overcome them and build a good life for them. It has to be said that they both came from a middle class environment, they suffered for the refusal of their relatives, but they have never had financial trouble, their parents never cut them off, and they had the chance to go away and build a life for their own. The sweet romance perspective is also clear in the sex, that is almost chaste, sometime even naive... the heroes are middle twenty men, but they behave like teenager.

Sincerely maybe someone could question on the truth of this story, but I have to say that it left me with a warm feeling. Is it true? for me it doesn't matter.

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Feb 24, 2011 Gwengwel rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: theme-closet-coming-out, profession-teacher-educator, romance-mm, genre-contemporary, sexcontent-mm, theme-school

Definitively written by a woman who like Harlequin novel.
Two gay man that think and act like a teenage girl in love with a rock star.
Not totally bad, just really cliche, totally GaryStue.
Too much use of the word 'perfect', at one moment I started to count them.
And the first person point of view's not my favorite.
The good point it's that they are cute together and I wanted them to be happy

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Sep 30, 2011 Kira rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: family, m-m

A very nice premise, nice family conflict and yes I could relate to some of it.

I suppose this book could have benefited from about 100 more pages. There wasn't that much depth in the relationship between the two main characters, whereas their relationship with other people was explained more thoroughly.

It was cute, and I will take a look at the sequel, but not a must-read.

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Aug 30, 2012 Ajax1978 rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Super quick read. Not much going on plotwise. I haven't seen you in years, I talk to you for one day, our differences are resolved in one conversation, I love you. Oh yeah, our fathers hate us.
Now I can get back to watching the opening night of college football. Gamecocks look like a mess as usual.

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Nov 07, 2012 Sue rated it 4 of 5 stars

This was a short romance, but pretty good imo.
I liked that Lisa Marie Davis did not flog the sex scenes to the expense of the plot. She got the point across without turning it into a marathon.
The sex only happened after a convincing buildup, too.
Really enjoyed this.

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Jul 05, 2009 Montana rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: from-rec, glbt, romance

It was pleasant enough, and well written. Alternating first-person POV, which I don't mind, except that the two characters sometimes sounded a bit too much alike. An easy romance, with very little internal conflict to interfere with the development of the relationship.

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Sep 28, 2011 Sadonna rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Lovely short book about two young men who despite past issues and resentments and longing, come together and find love. I'm on to the sequel!

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Sep 21, 2011 ~♥I_Luv_2_Read♥~ rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A lot of internal thoughts and monologue; not a lot of dialogue. It was still a short, sweet read.

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Sep 20, 2011 J rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is a short and sweet romantic story. Payne is a beautiful and wonderful person, inside and out. Glad that Jamie did not belabor when the time came... and opened himself to Payne.

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Feb 15, 2012 Kaseka rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: ebooks, mm-romance, contemporary, erotica, queer, romance, short-stories

3.5 out of 5.

A cute short story.

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Nov 01, 2012 Andrea rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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3.5 stars

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Jun 14, 2011 dx rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Aug 20, 2009 Nichole (Dirty H) rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Aww.

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Mar 03, 2012 Miriki rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Short. Cute & Simple.

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Sep 22, 2011 Sandy Malone rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mm-romance, read-2011, short-story, series-books

it should have been LONGER

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Mar 30, 2013 Kayla rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Born and raised in Florida, Lisa spends her time writing and babysitting her nearly three-year-old nephew, Zach. A night owl, most of her writing gets done well after one in the morning when the rest of the world is happily sleeping.

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